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Call Number:
MSS 15
Holdings:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Creator:
Leslie, Harriet Honor Stone, 1799–1879
Title(s):
Letter to Charles Robert Leslie
Date:
probably 1840s, "Tuesday morning"
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series III: Correspondence
Part of Collection:
1, folder 28
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
Harriet writes from Brighton. She complains that Charles has been inattentive to her letters and reminds him that their daughter Caroline has a cold. She says that they are comfortable in their lodgings with a Mrs. Mays_ard. Harriet continues to comment on Caroline's cold, pledging to get her better. She asks Leslie about a card for/from a Mrs. Bates, and mentions that she has seen the Rogerses. Harriet frets about the state of things at home and advises Leslie to buy for himself, Bradford, and George, "some of the warm trousers all the fashion now..." She closes by stating, "I know of no sea like the Brighton Sea."
Physical Description:
4 pages (1 folded leaf) ; 18.5 x 23 cm. Autograph letter, signed; written in pen and brown/black ink.
Genre:
Correspondence , Pictorial works, Albums (Books), Autobiographies, Cut-paper works, Graphite drawings, Pen and ink drawings, Letters, Sketchbooks, and Watercolors (paintings)
Subject Terms:
Dance
Military uniforms
Painters
Painting
Painting, British
Panoramas
Subject Period:
19th century
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859
Leslie, Harriet Honor Stone, 1799-1879
Finding Aid Title:
Charles Robert Leslie Collection
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/8.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/1266
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/1266?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1